A Brief History On January 6, 1994, American figure skater and favorite to win the US Figure Skating Championships, Nancy Kerrigan, was attacked by two men hired by the ex-husband of her rival, Tonya Harding, beating the skater’s leg with a metal baton. In trying to clear the way for Harding in the US championships and presumably onto the Olympic team, the thugs failed to prevent Kerrigan from headlining the US Olympic figure skating team, although she was out of the US championship contest due to her injuries. Digging Deeper Athletes have been attacked, assaulted, or forcibly robbed many times,…
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A Brief History On December 30, 2024, we take a look back at the ones we lost this year, and instead of trying to amass a giant list of everyone and everything, we aim to keep this list limited to those of particular note, at least to us! Digging Deeper Former President Jimmy Carter, age 100, was a fine person who showed his true morals and values in the years since leaving the White House. Baseballer Rickey Henderson, age 65, Major League Baseball’s all-time base stealer, was probably the greatest lead off batter of all time. Richard Simmons, exercise and…
A Brief History On December 20, 1991, the parents of a Palestinian American girl were sentenced to death for the first degree murder of their daughter, a murder committed in the name of “honor,” believing their daughter had shamed the family by living a decadent American style life and having a romantic relationship with an African American man. Digging Deeper Despite the death sentences, the father died in prison six years later while the mother’s sentence was commuted to life in prison. The vast time span between being sentenced to death and actual execution in the US is over 19…
A Brief History On December 19, 2016, Berlin, Germany, was the scene of a horrific mass murder by a frustrated asylum seeker from Tunisia who hijacked a truck and drove it into a crowd of people at a Christmas Market, leaving a dozen dead and scores injured. Digging Deeper While firearms are usually given the most attention when it comes to mass murder, the sad fact is that people with murderous intent have shown surprising ingenuity in the employment of alternate means of committing their heinous acts, such as motor vehicles, bombs, edged weapons, poisons, aircraft, and fire. The perpetrator…
A Brief History On November 2, 2007, Ozzy Osbourne, he of bat biting satanic rock fame, was highly irate over police using a party in North Dakota alleging to include the presence of the famous rocker to invite 500 wanted persons, resulting in 30 arrests. Digging Deeper Police issuing invitations to “parties” or some sort of “giveaway” to known wanted criminals to lure those folks into a trap have been a regular police tactic for many years now. Likewise, police use fake internet personas to lure pedophiles and sexual predators, which many have seen on the TV show “To Catch…